Improvement in sheet-metal spoons



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' Sheet-Metal Spoons.

Patented Aug. 18,1874.

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GARRY I. MIX, OF YALESVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHEET-METAL SPOONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,269, dated August 18, 1874 application filed February 5, 1873.

Improvements in Sheet-Metal Spoons; anddo hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank used for forming my improved spoon. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same after the edges of the handle have been turned inward. Fig. 3 is a plan viewof the completed spoon, and Figs.

4, 5, and 6 are, respectively, sections upon lines as :v, y y, and z z of Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

In the construction. of sheet-metal spoons much difficulty has been experienced in secur. ing sufficient strength for the central portion of the handle to enable it to withstand the required strain, and many expedients have been employed for obviating the same, such as doubling the material, adding an extra plate at such point, 850.; but thus far such expedients have not proved successful. My invention has the same object in view; and it consists, as a new article of manufacture, in a sheet-metal spoon having the central portion of its handle strengthened by ribs or beads, formed by the inward-turned edges of said handle, substantially as is hereinafter specithe sides are extended outwardbeyond the usual size, which latter is indicated by the dotted lines. The blank shown is now subjected to the operation of a stamping-press, for the purpose of turning the extended portions a and a, inward upon the lower face of the handle A, after which said blank is passed through .the finishing-dies, and said inwardlyturned edges a and a pressedinto the form of round hollow beads a and a, as seen in Figs. 3 and 6, which latter possess many times the strength of the former, and increase the rigidity of said handle more than would the addition of two flat plates of equal size and thickness. In addition'to the increased strength given to the spoon-handle by my construction, theappearance and convenience of the same are enhanced without increase in the cost of material, as the metal contained in the inward- G. I. MIX.

Witnesses:

A. V. BRrEsEN, MICHAEL RYAN. 

